14:30 - 16:30
Online-Stream
First edition of lumbung calling
Mit Melani Budianta and Armin Salassa, moderated by Jumana Emil Abboud and Mirwan Andan
In English, translated into sign language (International Sign)
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On Saturday, the 3. April 2021 starts with the seven-part lumbung calling series of talks Accompanying program of the documenta fifteen, called Meydan. Each issue of the series is dedicated to one of the following lumbung values: Local anchoring, Humor, generosity, independence, transparency, Frugality and regeneration. The format looks at the background of the artistic approach of the documenta fifteen and illuminates the topic lumbung from different perspectives.
In conversations with a large number of different guests, lumbung calling explores the numerous meanings of lumbung across various disciplines, Points of view and contexts within an artistic framework. Academics are invited, Activist * within, independent researchers, Organic farmers, Fishermen and festival organizers - all actors, who faced great challenges and initiated significant changes through their actions.
First edition of lumbung calling: Local anchoring
The first edition of calling barn takes place on 3. April 2021 and is dedicated to the value of local anchoring. The concept of anchoring emphasizes the importance of soil and grounding in our globalized and yet divided world - one soil, that makes it possible, To put down roots, and that connects trees over many kilometers. Similar to trees, which reflect mutual signals, can also harvest- and cultivation methods resonate with one another, mutually benefit from traditional wisdom and thus develop new resources. The guests Melani Budianta and Armin Salassa point to, like political, social and economic models can be challenged from different perspectives - through the perspective of a seed as well as through the affectionate voices of worried mothers. The first edition of calling barn is from Jumana Emil Abboud and Mirwan Andan moderated. The event will be held in English and will be in sign language (International Sign) translated.
Melani Budianta is a professor of literature- and cultural studies at the humanities faculty of Universitas Indonesia and member of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society. Budianta has been researching and writing on the topics of gender and cultural activism since the late 1980s. Her articles have been published in various media, from academic journals to newspapers and magazines. During the Asian financial crisis 1997-1998 she was active in the country's women's movement. 2020 Melani Budianta gave the lecture at the invitation of the Jakarta Art Council Cultural Granaries Along the Alleys.
Armin Salassa is an Indonesian farmer and activist from Bulukumba, Südsulawesi. Together with the farmers of the village, in which he was born, initiierte Salassa 2011 natural agriculture - a cultivation method, which takes an ecological approach and has long been practiced in many areas of the archipelago. In the connection of scientific knowledge with the wisdom of life as well as stories and practices, inherited from ancestors, is on the use of chemical fertilizers, Pesticides, No fungicides and herbicides. since 1993 Salassa is also a community organizer in various places in Indonesia and campaigns for the denied rights of the indigenous people in Palu, Central Sulawesi, on. since 2007 Armin Salassa has given help with community organization in numerous Indonesian villages, including in Aceh, Sumatra, after the tsunami disaster in 2004.
Jumana Emil Abbouds creative interest is oral history as well as personal and collective stories and mythologies, especially folk tales and places of their kind- and absence. She uses storytelling in her artistic practice, performative elements and workshop methodologies, about the relationship between time and place, to examine the human and the non-human. Through their preoccupation with memory, Abboud encounters attachment and dispossession in the struggle for continuity in politics, ecological and cultural struggles. Her work has been on The Jerusalem Show, among others, im BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, England as well as at the Sharjah Biennale, United Arab Emirates, the Istanbul Biennale, Turkey and the Venice Biennale, To see Italy. She was resident at Sakiya - Art / Science / Agriculture, Palestine, the Delfina Foundation, England, of the Arts Initiative Tokyo, Japan and in the Guestatelier Krone in Switzerland. Jumana Emil Abboud is currently doing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London.
Mirwan Andan is a member of ruangrupa, the artistic direction of the documenta fifteen
Further dates
calling barn: Humor, Saturday, 1. May 2021
calling barn: generosity, Saturday, 5. June 2021
calling barn: independence, Saturday, 3. July 2021
calling barn: transparency, Saturday, 7. August 2021
calling barn: Frugality, Saturday, 4. September 2021
calling barn: Regeneration, Saturday, 2. October 2021
Further information: https://www.documenta.de/de/documenta-fifteen/#news
lumbung as a value system and cosmology
In Indonesia is barn a striking building with its various shapes and styles, similar to a barn. The official dictionary of the Indonesian language, Indonesia Dictionary, defines lumbung as a “storage place for agricultural products, mostly rice, in the form of a pile dwelling, with walls made of woven wood or bamboo ". This definition determines the conception of lumbung: First of all, lumbung can be understood as a harvest store, especially in agricultural societies. Such a narrow definition, however, ties the meaning of the word to a particular architecture. As a practice, however, lumbung extends beyond the physical appearance of the building and can be applied to spaces beyond agriculture. In Indonesia's cultural discourse, lumbung means shared common resources. Understood in this way, the terminology does not only appear as a building or object, but as a value system and as cosmology, which describes a lived social practice. lumbung thus bears witness to a community life, that carries the spirit of collaboration - characteristics of this practice can already be found in premodern societies. The developments towards the capitalist modes of production that are predominant today force a constant redefinition of values. lumbung calling investigates the question, how these values can be translated into artistic practice, which opens up new discursive spaces.